A Conversation and Curatorial Workshop with Co-Curator of the 16th Gwangju Biennale

Over three sessions, the Art & Spatial Praxis research group invites participants to imagine more equitable, communal, and subversive ways of inhabiting our urban environments.

This session explored new myths of the Rhine, and how a small, DIY, AI could help inspire different forms of imagination.

Through an encounter with a range of materials, the Care Ecologies Collective invited participants to reflect on notions of care and friction within facilitation contexts.

ARIAS associate artist Agat Sharma invites artistic researchers into a collaborative exchange, engaging with the object of the wild wolf through the lens of their individual practices

Unfolding over three practice sharing sessions, participants are invited to engage with ro heinrich's collaborative research-film-in-process, 'Weaving conversations at the end of the world as we know it'.

What does it mean to [un]learn scripts? Our guests answer this question by bringing forward their practices and ways of knowing through topics like storytelling, archives, touch, emotion, rehearsal, and illness.

Through the lens of relational ontology and process philosophy, we contemplated the [un]learning of modernity’s fractured notion of the individual, and instead embraced the entangled, interdependent nature of existence.

Listen to the first episode of the podcast, Unicorns, Forgetting, and Algorithmic Histories, which dives into the entangled histories of magic, technology, and capital.

On this day-long event, we reimagined artificial intelligence through artistic practice and the lenses of ethics, relationality, and refusal.

During the first gathering of this three-part series, artistic researcher ro heinrich invited us to reflect on practices of relationality.

In this session of Slow AI, research-based artist Angelo Custódio explored voice as a confluence of body and mind, bridging techno and soma in an environment that encouraged participation and fluid materialization.

This session of Slow AI entered the library of De Appel and tuned into the rhythm of its archive to speculate on the reality of data, the temporality of the physical, and the fragility of the digital.

This session of Slow AI speculated on the agency of images and explored how creating our image archives can become a personal act of remembrance.

For this event, ARIAS’s Care Ecologies group in collaboration with DAS Publishing and de Nieuwe Dans Bibliotheek, hosted author Daisy Hildyard, choreographer Catalina Insignares and dramaturg Tamara Antonejivic for an exchange of artistic practices.

This session of Slow AI focused on challenging conventional ideas of artificial intelligence by shifting attention to knowledge systems rooted in the intelligence of matter itself, such as magic and divination.

A collaborative session corresponding to Yen Noh, Erica Biolchini and Nienke Scholts’ resonating research towards collaborative forms of healing, pausing, (un)learning, as well as being with illness, exhaustion and other systemic wounds.

Using storytelling and games to playfully dissect social scripts, examine their origins, and re­imagine our roles within them.

This first Slow AI session explored non-extractive imaginaries of AI by reimagining AI narratives through myth-making rooted in personal and ancestral stories of creation.

Slow AI focuses on developing strategies to address colonial and extractive histories in current AI systems by introducing the concept of slowness to a fast technology.

The second "Making Waves" zine, published in April 2024, challenges climate stereotypes, fostering imagination and interspecies perspectives through artists' contributions and interactive design.

This podcast is part of the project Climate Imaginaries which speculates possible futures in and around water through various artistic and participatory research practices.

Workshop and lunch that explored an archive of language towards climate care, anxiety and the relations therein.

Dinner and film screenings highlighting the moving image as a source of knowledge and activism.

Workshop that used speculative policy writing to explore the limits of “digital immortality”.

Exploring generative AI models through the idea of "mutable notions". Discussions on the iconic's link to generative AI were followed by a data exercise testing prompts and outputs, guiding participants in reverse-engineering results.

The product of Femke Dekker’s year-long investigation into sound and listening at the University of the Arts The Hague, this publication explores the role of sound in creative practice research.

Pernilla Manjula Philip's exhibition "Post Purposing Pump Station", challenges the dominance of medical technology and emphasises disabled people's agency in navigating their health needs.

Reflecting on the urgency of archiving, the importance of including diverse perspectives when preserving knowledge, and the different ways of approaching collections.

The paper explores inclusive cities using geospatial photovoice, revealing nuanced perspectives on urban belonging among marginalized groups, and aiming for community participation in city planning.

The "It Happened Tomorrow" workshop invited participants to draw speculative landscapes to imagine a future Netherlands impacted by rising sea levels and climate change.

Afternoon workshop that examined the “grammars of separability” through a grounding warm up, presentation of practice and writing exercise.

This PhD research proposes "Embodied Lines" as a framework to understand how lines shape our experiences and explores it as a means to integrate mind, body, and environment through dance and movement.

Presentation on digital afterlives and collective speculative writing from the perspective of customer service representatives.

Exhibit visit to Hira Nabi’s How to Love a Tree? | Wild Encounters, collective reading, and reflection on the different modes of time learned from nature.

The ARIAS Artificial Worlds Group hosted "Ghosts in the Machine," a symposium discussing AI's role in the arts. Artists and researchers explored AI's impact on creative expression, research, and education.

Amanda Piña's project explores the loss of cultural and biological diversity, fostering exchanges between art, science, and indigenous knowledge, and challenging hierarchies in understanding nature.

Claudio Celis Bueno, Ada Popowicz, and Pei-Sze Chow explored generative AI and creativity, reflecting on its nature, sociotechnical distribution, and role as industry and labour drawing on Csikszentmihalyi and Lievrouw.

Exploring embodied knowledge through different senses and exchanging experiences with “not knowing”.

"Parts per Billion" is an essay exploring density, spatial politics, and algorithmic aesthetics. It celebrates Horror Vacui as a metaphor for diverse social fabrics, using excess and noise to delve into personal and collective experiences.

This workshop and lecture delved into the critical implications of salinisation and explored interdisciplinary approaches to offer fresh insights into our relationship with rising sea levels.

"Water Nation" by Kim Spierenburg combines music and film to explore fears and hopes surrounding water. Using archival material and AI-generated images, it prompts reflection on contemporary water-related anxieties.

Getting to know each other by sharing stories through personal objects over lunch with Bar Bario & Amir Baroud.

"Sonic Fabulative Feminism" explores radio as a performative space, merging sonic imagination with global debates. It questions historical memories and structures, collaborating with Latin American artists and researchers.

This workshop proposed using diagrams to explore noise as a device and methodology. Participants brought texts and ideas, discussed and created collective diagrams to investigate the theme of apophenia.

Introduction to Slow Research Lab which highlights care and slowness through exercises and conversation.

Workshop and lunch that explored an archive of language towards climate care, anxiety and the relations therein.

This project explores how generative AI models shape new taxonomies. It delves into the relationship between text, image, and categorization, illuminating AI's impact on language and understanding shared reality.

Story sprint and collective writing that explored care and grief through the digital world.

"The School of Mountains and Waters" challenges modern/colonial notions of human separation from nature, drawing from Amsterdam's water history. Amidst climate change, it questions adaptation, energy transition, and ecological justice.

In this session, participants are invited to describe a curated set of images in ways that defy conventional understanding, mimicking Al's tendency to "hallucinate." This exercise encourages new perspectives on classification and categorisation.

"Dear Machines" redefines AI as a companion, drawing from indigenous ontologies and scholars like Kite, Latour, and Haraway. It explores AI as a mediator of knowledge, challenging traditional structures and perceptions of intelligence.

This project is a body of texts, 16mm films, photographs and objects collected and created by artist researcher and filmmaker Olya Korsun during her expedition to the West Pole – a speculative landscape spread on top of unsuspicious Netherlands.

This project by Nesli Gül explores how Turkish artists in the Netherlands have shaped the art scene since the late 1980s. Using archival materials and interviews, it delves into memory, migration, artistic identity, filling gaps in Dutch art history.

"Hard Work, Soft Work" explores feminist collective methodologies in arts, emphasizing both technical skills and soft skills. It aims to renew the concept of 'Tools' and foster collaboration within typically excluded craft practices.

What could visual art afford for people involved in making technologies? In this lecture Professor Prof. Dr. Erik Rietveld aims to show that artistic practices afford embedding technologies better in society.

"The scene is fluid" explores ocean crises through costumes and a video-poem, focusing on two species in Bosnia's Bileća Lake. It delves into sensory adaptation and transformation in a changing world.

"An [Interrupted] Bestiary" is an expanded publication portraying endangered underwater creatures. It explores themes of extinction, grief, and speciesism, capturing and reimagining the performance amidst recent global events.

This article connects dance and prehistoric cave art, focusing on the role of lines as temporal and spatial traces. It suggests that lines serve as a connection between fields, revealing new insights into embodied practices and the extended mind.

"This Walk is a Pause" is a poetic sound piece in which the narrator invites the listener to walk along with her through both actual and mental landscapes, eventually arriving in a surrounding where walking offers a form of pausing.

This project repurposes AI to co-author climate stories and images, blending artistic and machine learning methods. It critiques future-making practices, creating a tarot-like deck to inspire discussions on climate change and alternative futures.

Zine#2, "Estuaries: Ways of Knowing," explores the theme of loss in art research. It features voices from the ARIAS network, examining how loss influences new ways of understanding and knowledge creation.

This research explores how diverse identities affect urban experiences using Data Feminism. By redesigning data visualisation, it aims to reveal and challenge power dynamics, fostering a sense of belonging in cities.

Paula Montecinos Oliva's "Sonic Performativity" explores sound, listening, and embodiment to reveal transformative and emancipatory potentials through experimental methodologies.

"Hinterlands" (2021), the first ARIAS book, explores transdisciplinary research through diverse contributions on language, listening, pedagogy, care and more. It blends reflective and poetic styles, challenging conventional research boundaries.